coreboot-kgpe-d16/payloads/libpayload
Jeremy Compostella 5b8987ae46 libpayload: Support unaligned pointer for memcpy, memmove and memcmp
The memcpy(), memmove() and memcmp() functions use word by word
operations regardless of the pointer alignment.  Depending on the
platform, this could lead to a crash.

This patch makes the memcpy(), memmove() or memcmp() operate byte per
byte if they are supplied with unaligned pointers.

Change-Id: I0b668739b7b58d47266f10f2dff2dc9cbf38577e
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@intel.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/20535
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
2017-07-13 18:16:15 +00:00
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arch payloads: change coreboot to lowercase 2017-06-07 12:08:55 +02:00
bin libpayload: Move base address, stack and heap size to Kconfig 2016-03-15 20:53:38 +01:00
configs libpayload/configs: Add configuration for Galileo 2017-06-26 15:32:17 +00:00
crypto libpayload: Make Kconfig bools use IS_ENABLED() 2015-06-30 18:55:15 +02:00
curses libpayload/.../PDCurses: Improve compatibility with ncurses 2016-12-14 18:02:51 +01:00
drivers libpayload: Add mouse cursor driver 2017-06-28 00:56:53 +00:00
gdb libpayload/gdb: fix unused variable warning 2017-04-29 07:34:08 +02:00
include libpayload: Add mouse cursor driver 2017-06-28 00:56:53 +00:00
libc libpayload: Support unaligned pointer for memcpy, memmove and memcmp 2017-07-13 18:16:15 +00:00
libcbfs libpayload: cbfs: Fix minor memory leak in some edge cases 2016-08-12 22:52:22 +02:00
liblz4 payloads: Add whitespace around '<<' 2017-06-28 00:23:18 +00:00
liblzma libpayload: lzma: Allocate scratchpad on the heap 2016-08-08 19:02:07 +02:00
libpci Remove empty lines at end of file 2015-06-08 00:55:07 +02:00
sample Remove empty lines at end of file 2015-06-08 00:55:07 +02:00
tests Remove empty lines at end of file 2015-06-08 00:55:07 +02:00
Doxyfile
Kconfig libpayload: Add mouse cursor driver 2017-06-28 00:56:53 +00:00
LICENSES libpayload: Add LZ4 decompression algorithm 2015-07-09 00:10:16 +02:00
LICENSE_GPL
Makefile libpayload: fix build 2017-01-25 17:58:48 +01:00
Makefile.inc libpayload: update junit.xml target, clean up output 2016-03-25 18:18:27 +01:00
README Use www.coreboot.org over coreboot.org 2017-06-07 12:05:44 +02:00

README

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libpayload README
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libpayload is a minimal library to support standalone payloads
that can be booted with firmware like coreboot. It handles the setup
code, and provides common C library symbols such as malloc() and printf().

Note: This is _not_ a standard library for use with an operating system,
rather it's only useful for coreboot payload development!
See https://www.coreboot.org for details on coreboot.


Installation
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 $ git clone https://review.coreboot.org/p/coreboot.git

 $ cd coreboot/payloads/libpayload

 $ make menuconfig

 $ make

 $ sudo make install (optional, will install into /opt per default)

As libpayload is for 32bit x86 systems only, you might have to install the
32bit libgcc version, otherwise your payloads will fail to compile.
On Debian systems you'd do 'apt-get install gcc-multilib' for example.


Usage
-----

Here's an example of a very simple payload (hello.c) and how to build it:

 #include <libpayload.h>

 int main(void)
 {
     printf("Hello, world!\n");
     return 0;
 }

Building the payload using the 'lpgcc' compiler wrapper:

 $ lpgcc -o hello.elf hello.c

Please see the sample/ directory for details.


Website and Mailing List
------------------------

The main website is https://www.coreboot.org/Libpayload.

For additional information, patches, and discussions, please join the
coreboot mailing list at https://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist, where most
libpayload developers are subscribed.


Copyright and License
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See LICENSES.